Natural Alternatives for Weight Loss [Paperback]

Michael & N D Murray (Author), Michael T. Murray (Author)

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Publication Date: June 4, 1997

Michael Murray offers safe, effective and lo w-cost alternative methods for weight loss. He provides natu ral options to appetite suppressants like Acutrim and Dexatr im as well as dietary and lifestyle information to help anyo ne lose weight and stay trim. '

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About the Author

Michael T. Murray, N.D., teaches at Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington. In addition to practicing medicine, he is the author of fourteen books, including Natural Alternatives to Over-the-Counter and Prescription Drugs, Natural Alternatives to Prozac, and A Textbook of Natural Medicine. He lives in Bellevue, Washington. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Do you want to lose weight? Then the last thing you should do is go on a diet that reduces your food intake. You will need to alter the type of foods that you choose to eat as well as possibly reducing the number of calories, but severely restricting food intake feeds into a phenomenon that too many Americans know firsthand--the yo-yo effect. They lose weight only to put it right back on and then some.

The cause of the yo-yo effect is tied to the very reason why some people are more prone to being overweight than others--metabolism. Most diets do not work because the focus is on restricting food intake, not on enhancing metabolism. Throughout this book you will be given recommendations that focus on turning up your metabolism to bum more calories.

Have you ever had a friend who could eat all the food she wanted and still stay thin, while sometimes it felt that if you simply looked at food, it tended to go right to your hips or midsection? The explanation you have probably heard is that it is a difference in metabolism. This answer is absolutely correct. How would you like to have the metabolism of a thin person? Is it possible? Yes, it is possible, and you will learn how.

In order fully to appreciate the program that will be recommended in the ensuing chapters, it is important that you understand what predisposes some people to a lifetime battle of the bulge. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 4, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688153852
• ISBN-13: 978-0688153854
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,113,605 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael T. Murray, N.D., is widely regarded as one of the world's leading authorities on natural medicine. He has been featured on numerous television programs, including 20/20 and Dateline. He lives in Arizona.

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27 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A complete waste of time., July 15, 1998

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This review is from: Natural Alternatives for Weight Loss (Paperback)

Having just recieved Michael T. Murray's "natural alternatives for weight loss", I spent a half-hour or so this evening thumbing through the book to get some kind of idea what the overall picture the author was presenting on the weight-loss dilemma.

As it turned out, a half hour was all the time I needed to see that Michael T. Murray presents no new material on this subject, at least none the reader can use.

Mr. Murray starts out (quite reasonably) with the subject "WHY DIETS DON'T WORK". I seem to remember a chapter of this title in every weight-loss tome from Dr. Adkins "diet revolution" to the venerable "fit or fat" by Covert Bailey. ( No indeed, Mr Murray, they didn't work then, and they don't work now) This somehow fails to expain why in the next several chapters the author attempts to put us on one! Except for a little lip service to supplements like chromium and a (frankly) weird chapter on positive affirmation (ev! ! ery day in every way I'm getting better and better!) the author does absolutely nothing in the way of breaking new ground in the field of weight loss.

I can't see why a professional person would put his name on a book that is a mere rehash of all the old ineffectual hash that came before it. I feel as if I threw my money away.

My advice: don't bother with this one.